Finalists announced for 2020 Off-West End Awards
Off-West End theatre shows that have run at venues all across London in 2019 have now been narrowed down to these finalists for the upcoming 2020 Offies Awards.
The Offies 2020 have found their finalists for this year's awards ceremony!
Honouring the best of the best in Off-West End talent across the capital last year, the lucky award winners will be announced in a ceremony to be held at the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre on 8 March 2020. Here is the full list of Off-West End Award nominees:
PLAYS
Plays: Most Promising New Playwright
— Dylan Coburn Gray, CitySong, Soho Theatre
— Samuel Bailey, Shook, Southwark Playhouse
— Zia Ahmed, I Wanna Be Yours, Bush Theatre
Plays: New Play
— Matilda Ibini, Little Miss Burden, Bunker Theatre
— Rose Lewenstein, Cougar, Orange Tree
— Ross Willis, Wolfie, Theatre503
Plays: Female in a Supporting Role
— Marina Bye, The Lady from the Sea, Coronet Theatre / Print Room
— Patience Tomlinson, Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough
— Sheila Atim, Time Is Love, Finborough
Plays: Male in a Supporting Role
— Bart Lambert, The House of Yes, Hope Theatre
— Ben Woods, A Christmas Carol, Bridge House Theatre
— John Sackville, Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough
Plays: Female Performance
— Gemma Barnett, A Hundred Words for Snow, Trafalgar Studios 2
— Lucy Briggs-Owen, Out of Water, Orange Tree
— Pia Tjelta, The Lady from the Sea, Coronet Theatre / Print Room
— Redd Lily Roche, Box Clever, Bunker
Plays: Male Performance
— Cary Crankson, Country Music, Omnibus
— Danny Kirrane, We're Staying Right Here, Park Theatre
— Irfan Shamji , The Arrival, Bush Theatre
— Kalungi Ssebandeke, Blood Knot, Orange Tree
Plays: Director
— Debbie Hannan, Little Miss Burden, Bunker Theatre
— Ned Bennett, Equus, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Tom Littler, All's Well That Ends Well, Jermyn Street Theatre
— Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree
Plays: Production
— Equus, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Shook, Southwark Playhouse
— Wolfie, Theatre503
MUSICALS and OPERA
Musicals: New Musical
— Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Shida, The Vaults
— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse
Musicals: Female in a Supporting Role
— Ashlee Young, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
— Claire Machin, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Georgie Lovatt, Bare: A Pop Opera, The Vaults
Musicals: Male in a Supporting Role
— Cedric Neal, The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre
— Jerome Pradon, Aspects of Love, Southwark Playhouse
— Oliver Savile, Falsettos, The Other Palace
Musicals: Female Performance
— Abigayle Honeywill, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
— Jeannette Bayardelle, Shida, Vaults
— Lauryn Redding, The Hired Man, Queens Theatre Hornchurch
Musicals: Male Performance
— Bart Lambert, Thrill Me, Hope Theatre
— Jack Reitman, Thrill Me, Hope Theatre
— Keith Ramsay, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse
Musicals: Musical Director
— Benjamin Cox, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
— Darren Clarke, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse
— Jordan Li-Smith, Queen of the Mist, Jack Studio Theatre / Charing Cross Theatre
Musicals: Director
— Bill Buckhurst, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
— Hannah Chissick, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Jethro Compton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse
Musicals: Production
— Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
— Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
— High Fidelity, Turbine Theatre
Opera Production
— HMS Pinafore, Charles Court Opera, King's Head
— Partenope, Hampstead Garden Opera, Jacksons Lane
— The Elixir of Love, King's Head
DESIGN
Design: Costume
— Adrian Gee, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Emily Bestow, 42nd Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
— Hannah Wolfe, Great Expectations, National Youth Theatre, Southwark Playhouse
Design: Set
— Diego Pitarch, Night of the Living Dead – Live!, Pleasance
— Justin Williams, Whistle Down the Wind, Union Theatre
— Lee Newby, The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre
— Rachael Ryan, Thrill Me, Hope Theatre
Design: Sound
— Benjamin Grant, The War of the Worlds, New Diorama Theatre
— Lex Kosanke, Hunger, Arcola
— Matt Eaton, All's Well That Ends Well, Guildford Bard, Jermyn Street Theatre
— Xana, Blood Knot, Orange Tree
Design: Lighting
— Christopher Nairne, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse
— Clancy Flynn, An Act of God, The Vaults
— Jessica Hung Han Yun, Equus, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Nic Farman, Night of the Living Dead – Live!, Pleasance
Design: Video
— Andrzej Goulding, The Unreturning, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Ben Bull, Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre
— Douglas Baker, Moby Dick, Jack Studio Theatre
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PANTOS
Choreography / Movement
— Oti Mabuse, Ain't Misbehavin, Southwark Playhouse
— Simon Adkins, 42nd Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
— Zak Nemorin, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
Pantos
— Sleeping Beauty, Greenwich Theatre
— The Nativity Panto, King's Head
IDEA / PERFORMANCE PIECE / ENSEMBLES
IDEA Production (productions which are innovative/devised/experiential/atypical)
— Bullet Tongue Reloaded, Big House
— Crisis? What Crisis?, Colab Factory
— Dear Elizabeth, Gate Theatre
— Sex Sex Men Men, Pecs Drag Kings, Yard Theatre
Performance Piece
— Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre
— Queens of Sheba, Battersea Arts Centre
— What Girls Are Made Of, Soho Theatre
Company Ensemble
— Neck or Nothing, Pleasance
— Operation Mincemeat, New Diorama
— Ubu, Shoreditch Town Hall
Performance Ensemble
— Dinomania, New Diorama - Hamish MacDougall, Harriet Webb, Janet Etuk, Sophie Steer
— Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre - Carly Bawden, Maimuna Memon, Niccolò Curradi, Zubin Varla
— Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree - Anyebe Godwin, Khai Shaw, Rachel Nwokoro
— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse - James Marlowe, Joey Hickman, Matt Burns, Rosalind Ford, Philippa Hogg